Access Cobb County Clerk Records

Cobb County Clerk Structure

Cobb County has a split clerk structure. The Clerk of Superior Court is Connie Taylor and is responsible for Superior Court files, divorce decrees, and real estate records. The main Superior Court clerk contact block lists 70 Haynes Street in Marietta and the clerk phone line. The real estate division is listed separately at 10 East Park Square, Building C.

The Superior Court Clerk contact page is one of the manifest sources for Cobb County clerk records.

Superior Court clerk access is the right path for felony, divorce, title-to-land, equity, broad civil, and real estate matters.

The Clerk of State Court is Tahnicia Phillips, with Alisha Hargett listed as Chief Deputy Clerk. State Court Clerk records include traffic, misdemeanor, and State Court civil cases. The State Court Clerk page gives statecourt@cobbcounty.gov, 12 East Park Square, weekday office hours, and separate division phone numbers.

The State Court Clerk page is also a manifest source because Cobb's second clerk uses the same mapped filename.

The State Court Clerk is the local clerk for county State Court traffic, misdemeanor, civil, accounting, and court-cost questions.

Cobb County Clerk Contacts

The two clerk offices should not be treated as one counter. A divorce decree belongs with Superior Court. A county traffic citation belongs with State Court. A real estate record belongs with the Superior Court Clerk's real estate division. The State Court Clerk may assist by phone on an individual case when possible, but the research says that office does not perform record searches.

Cobb County Clerk Duties

The Clerk of Superior Court keeps the records for the broad trial court. That includes divorce decrees and real estate records, and the county's court structure map ties Superior Court to felony, divorce, land-title, equity, and general civil/criminal matters. Cobb's official statement also notes that the Clerk of Superior Court is a constitutional officer elected directly by voters and independent from the Board of Commissioners.

The State Court Clerk maintains State Court records and collects fines and fees tied to those cases. State-law traffic violations in unincorporated Cobb are adjudicated in State Court. Misdemeanor cases are handled in State Court after the Solicitor General files an accusation and the clerk dockets the case. Arrest-case information is not available from the State Court Clerk before that filing step.

The State Court Clerk bio page is another manifest source for the office background.

The clerk bio page supports the distinction between court administration and the record divisions that help the public.

• Superior Court Clerk: Superior case files, divorce decrees, real estate records, and certified copies for those records.
• State Court Clerk: traffic, misdemeanor, State Court civil, accounting, and Traffic Violations Bureau records.
• State Court open records: requests go to StateCourtRecords@cobbcounty.gov or the State Court Clerk mailing address.
• Real estate records: handled through the Superior Court Clerk real estate division and public inquiry tools.
• Non-clerk records: Probate, Magistrate, Juvenile, sheriff, and municipal files stay with their own offices.

Request Cobb Certified Copies

Certified copies prove that the copy came from the official clerk record. The request path depends on the file. A certified divorce decree should be requested from the Superior Court Clerk. A certified State Court record should be requested from the State Court Clerk. Probate certified copies use Probate Court's fee schedule, and Magistrate certified copies use Magistrate Court's copy fees.

1. Identify the court that owns the record before contacting a clerk.
2. Gather the case number, party names, record type, and date range if available.
3. Use the correct clerk counter, copy-request page, email, or mailing address.
4. Ask for certification if the record will be filed with an agency, court, employer, or benefits office.
5. Pay the copy and certification fees listed by the office that holds the record.

For divorce records, the Superior Court Clerk copy channel is especially important. The research identifies regular and certified decree fees and a separate regular-copy fee when a final decree includes a settlement agreement. For traffic and misdemeanor matters, the State Court Clerk is the better starting point because that office keeps the docket after the case is filed into State Court.

Cobb County Clerk Request Fields

The State Court Clerk gives a direct open-record request channel. The research also records fields from related record request forms and databases. A strong request names the office, record type, parties, case number, and whether a certified copy is needed.

Cobb County Clerk Fees

The research file provides specific copy fees for divorce decrees, Magistrate copies, and Probate copies. It does not give a universal fee for every Superior or State Court document. When a fee is not listed, the safe route is to contact the clerk that holds the file before mailing payment.

Cobb State Court Clerk Access

The State Court Clerk's general-information page identifies Tahnicia Phillips as record custodian under Georgia's open-records law and states that public records are open for personal inspection unless prohibited by court order or law. It also says officials do not have to prepare reports, summaries, or compilations that do not already exist. Fax and email filings are not accepted.

The State Court Clerk general information page is a manifest source for these office rules.

That page is most relevant for traffic, misdemeanor, State Court civil, open-record, and court-term details.

The State and Magistrate Court Clerk's Office Express also adds a practical public service channel. It is branded "Justice on the Go" and serves payment-related court business from a drive-through setup.

The Clerk's Office Express page is another assigned image source.

Office Express is useful for payment access, but it does not replace clerk record searches or certified-copy requests.

State Court search coverage is also date-bound. The research says the public search covers civil cases filed from March 17, 1997 through the current year and traffic or misdemeanor cases filed from April 26, 1999 through the current year. It also says the site is intended for general public use, not bulk data mining, and that case-management updates from today are available the next day.

Cobb County Superior Clerk Independence

Cobb's July 31, 2025 official statement says the Clerk of Superior Court is one of four constitutional officers established by the Georgia Constitution, elected directly by voters, and independent from the Board of Commissioners. That matters for record access because the Superior Court Clerk is not merely a county department inside the normal board structure.

The county statement concerning the Clerk of Superior Court is the final manifest source for this clerk page.

For the public, the practical point is simple: Superior Court records access should follow the elected clerk's office channels.

For a records user, the split structure means the county website, the elected Superior Court Clerk, and the State Court Clerk may each control different pieces of the same courthouse trip. The safest request names the court, case type, parties, case number if known, and whether the copy must be certified.

Older or non-digitized records should be requested directly from the clerk that maintains the file. The research cautions users not to rely on a public portal for official deadlines or complete files.